MAINSTAGE KEYS
TOP 3 MAINSTAGE FAVORITES FOR BEGINNERS… | David Pfaltzgraff
Summertime is here! Whether you’re a parent develop skill in spite of all the aforementioned A simple and enjoyable way to avoid this is
figuring out how to deal with your kids being considerations. to experiment with changing up the way that
you approach songs you already know. As
out of school or a college student adjusting to
a few months without classes, Summer can I’ll keep these short and simple. Don’t feel the keyboard players the low-hanging fruit here is
be an awesome time of vacations, activities, need to try them all. If one or two of them sound revisiting existing sounds and presets you’ve
and sunshine. It is also a season when many doable or enjoyable to you, start with those. curated for a song and taking some time to
musicians can lose any existing momentum Make sure that you can follow through and ‘remix’ them and see what happens. This
built up through the year so far. track the benefit. process can inspire creativity and it’s also a
great opportunity to examine your existing
Why? Because there’s often just so much going REVISIT AND REVISE decisions and work to see what you would now
on. Worship teams can be more sparse than My experience may not be universal but I’ve do differently.
usual because of vacations. Church attendance heard it echoed by countless worship leaders in general drops. And our rehearsal capacity as I know: “We don’t really introduce new songs If you’re not the leader of your team be sure
musicians can go down as we spend more time during the Summer.” This is usually because to touch base with your leadership before
doing Summer activities (or juggling those of it’s just a lot harder to get new songs in the diving headfirst into that dubstep rendition of
our kids). Today I’d like to propose a few simple rotation when half the team is on vacation. With “Oceans’` just to make sure that your worship
steps, ideas, and habits you can implement this no new songs to learn it can be easy to grow leader(s) understands what you’d like to do and
Summer to make sure that you or the worship complacent or even get bored with your role as has an opportunity to give you input before you
keys players you lead can continue to grow and a keys player. invest a lot of time in something that won’t end
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